The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-06
For the Eaton D. democrat.
ssSacred War Tariff -

We now have the curious spec
tacle of Congressman Campbell
voting with eastern monopolists to
keep that SACRED war tariff" of
about 1870 on products. Mr.. Pro-
tectionist, you hum at the word
products, but that is just it it tax
es the product of the forest, field
and mine just that much to build
brown stone fronts in cities that
the producers never own. Just
such damnable legislation has and
will continue to sell out farmers
and dealers of small means, and
reduce them to discouraged day
workers who may go south and
work on some protected sugar
patch, while the dude who owns it
tends horse races and fox-hunts,
or he may possibly go to work in
the iron mines at their average wa
ges of 80 cents per day while the
dear protected, ~heartless, blood
less, soulless, Goddess, Sherman
ties, Randallites or Complexities,
spend their winters lobbying to
have the laws mode more oppres-
sive, and their wives take their
grown daughters and attend thea
tres and hunt up some ''damphool'
parasites for husbands, and their
sons are given some paying clerk
ship, or are sent to some fine haired
school, which our c~hildrencan new
er even look upon, because they
must spend from IA tos16 hours
daily in some tobacco patch or
shed, to pay the holy Maffs,,ior to
give Mrs. Grant andha dew others
$14.31 per day, and Mrs, Hancock
and others half as muchr And is
this a free country that has no
kings? It is shocking to think of.
Why it takes a good mechanic to
earn $14.00 per week. Away with
such tariffs and pensions, they are
damning to our country,
Give us such men as Beck to
fight R. R. monopolies and their
lawyers in Congress; Morrison to
reduce tariff according to the fall
in grain, labor, &c.; and .Aldrich
to take up 40 bonds with our
surplus money in the Treasury,
and substitute 21% bonds.
We hear political stumpers brag
about our great agricultural ability
we would like to know what a
farm amounts to if you have to
abuse your body and neglect your
mind to keep it? We!are. tired of
building brown stone fronts in CT
ties, where the fools cannSt@pay
the tax on them unless they steal
it through tariff measures. They
talk of taking some Of the tariff off
of tobacco and whisky. Why in
common justice don't they take it
off of wooden goods, &c, so that
honest poor people could dress
comfortably? We incline strong
ly to the opinion that cheap wool
en- garments are more necessary
than cheap whisky and tobacco.
Our law-making power vigorous
ly reduced wool tariff, and to this
we do not object, but why not use
horse sense and common decency
and serve the goods the same way?
Of course that would hurt brown
stone front men. Farmers sell their
wool for about Is cents a pound,
and for our common yarn and
wooden goods we pay about $3.50
a pound; my common fellow la
borer, who pays the difference?
We do-with grain raised at,India
and Russia pauper labor prices,
our surplus grain must sell for as
little as theirs, or not at all, and
there is no help for us. A farmer
buys of his grocer a barrel of SUI
gar upon which the tariff is about
six dollars; he pays the six dol
lars to keep some other people from
shipping it to him for the six dol
lars less-one dollar would be am
pie tax on such an article, but we
must protect that dandy "hoss"
racing, fox-hunting fellow, who
hires and would continue to hire
poor men, to run his factory for